Halichondrida 
AphiaID: 131596

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class)

Authority		Gray, 1867
Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Order
Parent		Demospongiae
Sources		original description: Gray, J.E. 1867a. Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details] [full text] basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Order Halichondrida Gray, 1867. Pp. 721-723. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details] [full text] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Direct child taxa		Family Axinellidae Carter, 1875 Family Bubaridae Topsent, 1894 Family Dictyonellidae Van Soest, Diaz & Pomponi, 1990 Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867 Family Heteroxyidae Dendy, 1905 Family Scopalinidae Morrow, Picton, Erpenbeck, Boury-Esnault, Maggs & Allcock, 2012 Family Desmoxyidae Hallmann, 1917 accepted as Heteroxyidae Dendy, 1905 Family Hymeniacidonidae de Laubenfels, 1936 accepted as Halichondriidae Gray, 1867 Family Phakellidae Gray, 1867 accepted as Axinellidae Carter, 1875
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent + fossil
Links		To GenBank To ITIS
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131596
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van Soest, Rob 2006-01-18 19:06:18Z   changed   van Soest, Rob 2006-05-18 10:05:01Z   changed   van Soest, Rob 2007-07-26 14:15:49Z   changed   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Halichondrida. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database at http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=131596 on 2013-05-24